Nuwagaba Patience

Nuwagaba Patience is a Ugandan freelance screenwriter, playwright, and poet. She holds a bachelor's degree in Drama and Film from Makerere University. Nuwagaba started creating stories to be transported to a make-believe world, which she always found exciting due to the endless possibilities she would weave with her imagination.

She started writing in 2012, writing short stories for her classmates. The positive feedback they gave her then propelled her to continue creating.

Professionally, she started writing plays and poems in 2017 after taking online writing classes. Over the years, she has written plays for secondary and primary schools, and these plays have featured in several National Music, Dance and Drama festivals. Some of the schools she has written for include Bweranyangi Girls Secondary School, Parental Care Primary School, Buganda Road Primary School and Sheema Girls Secondary School.

Nuwagaba has written plays which include, ‘Light At The End Of The Tunnel’ (2017), ‘A well for my Village’ (2019), ‘Plot 29 Revenge Town’ (2020), ‘The Boy Who Cried Hope’ (2023), ‘Pieces of Us’ (2024), ‘Miss Independence’ (2025) She has also written films which include ‘Waiting Annah’ (2022), ‘Walls’ (2024) and ‘Walumbe’ (2024).

Currently, she has gained a profound interest in writing for television. She was the head writer for the television series ‘Tea Fields’ which is a grant-winning project from the Uganda Communications Commission. She has also written the television series ‘The Village Shop’, which will start airing on Bukedde TV 1 on 9th March 2025.

Nuwagaba has been part of the National adjudicators for the Primary School Music Dance and Drama Festival of 2024. Currently, she is part of a year-long residency of Emerging Artists at Tebere Arts Foundation.

She aspires to use art to make positive, lasting changes in society.